All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
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All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
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Re: All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
#2Thanks for all the attention folks! I'm always keen to hear feedback & thoughts or even suggestions for future posts from HN.
Re: All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
#3It's interesting to read this stuff and I'm glad you're doing your best to improve UK recruitment. One small thing:
all-caps is unnecessary (unless it was a play on RFC should), italic (or bold if you must) is better. Your text is bit of a wall, it might be better unjustified, slightly darker and with some paragraph spacing. I see you're composing it in what looks like Word. Blogspot probably has better defaults if you copy-paste in plain text instead (or use the eraser on the toolbar).
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#4In the Netherlands the situation is pretty much the same. I personally never use recruiters to find a job. I had put my CV shortly up on a website and got harassed months after with job vacancies that didn't even relate to my CV. Most developers around me also hold a grudge against recruiters and see it, like mentioned in your article, as a necessary evil.
It's not nice being treated as livestock.
Re: All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
#5It's interesting to read this stuff and I'm glad you're doing your best to improve UK recruitment. One small thing: all-caps is unnecessary (unless it was a play on RFC should), italic (or bold if you must) is better. Your text is bit of a wall, it might be better unjustified, slightly darker and with some paragraph spacing. I see you're composing it in what looks like Word. Blogspot probably has better defaults if y…
Thanks for the feedback. I've changed the font colour and eliminated the caps. I find the readability & aesthetics better if the text is justified although I will have a play with paragraph spacing. Thanks again!
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#6I am not sure I buy the thesis. Greed and money are universal, yet most businesses don't need the call centric approach. Not even companies which sells very expensive things like, say, diamonds.
My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy. After all, what does recruitment do that a job board can't? Looking through a resume for keywords is easy to do with a computer and most recruiters doesn't provide more than that.
Hopefully the recession will kill recruiters.
Re: All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
#7In the Netherlands the situation is pretty much the same. I personally never use recruiters to find a job. I had put my CV shortly up on a website and got harassed months after with job vacancies that didn't even relate to my CV. Most developers around me also hold a grudge against recruiters and see it, like mentioned in your article, as a necessary evil. It's not nice being treated as livestock.
It's a global issue. A lot can be done to change it though. Have a look at my previous post 'Questions from my experiences as a recruiter on Hacker News' for tips on how to deal with sub-par recruiters.
http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/questions-from-my-expe...
Re: All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
#8I am not sure I buy the thesis. Greed and money are universal, yet most businesses don't need the call centric approach. Not even companies which sells very expensive things like, say, diamonds. My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy. After all, what does recruitment do that a job board can't? Looking through a resume for keywords is easy to do with a com…
My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy.
You're right, there is very little value when the recruiter is just another salesman and the industry is incredibly self-aware. Most recruiters know that they have little to add but why should they care if people continue paying ridiculous fee's for their services? The only way to counter-act a lack of value add is to take the cunning sales approach and convince you that their is more value than what you have been led to believe which is generally just smoke and mirrors.
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#9I am not sure I buy the thesis. Greed and money are universal, yet most businesses don't need the call centric approach. Not even companies which sells very expensive things like, say, diamonds. My guess is that recruitment doesn't generate much value, which is a bigger problem than being greedy. After all, what does recruitment do that a job board can't? Looking through a resume for keywords is easy to do with a com…
A lot of very expensive items are things people want because they visibly signal a certain level of wealth (diamonds, big homes, expensive cars, etc). You don't need to employ an outbound call center to sell Ferraris because they people who can afford them (and many people who can't) will seek out places to buy them so that they will be able to send signals to others about their wealth.
No CTO gets to show off their expensive developer to other CTOs and brag about it.
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#10In the Netherlands the situation is pretty much the same. I personally never use recruiters to find a job. I had put my CV shortly up on a website and got harassed months after with job vacancies that didn't even relate to my CV. Most developers around me also hold a grudge against recruiters and see it, like mentioned in your article, as a necessary evil. It's not nice being treated as livestock.
It's a global issue. A lot can be done to change it though. Have a look at my previous post 'Questions from my experiences as a recruiter on Hacker News' for tips on how to deal with sub-par recruiters. http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/questions-from-my-expe...
I think the advice you give is interesting, though i'm more curious to hear why you think people should use a recruiter in the first place? I can see the potential training or retouching of a CV, but i feel somewhat confident that i got that right. So then, what's left?
And isn't the harassment a trade-off for, as what i perceive, being too lazy to find a job yourself?